Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-08-13

come at first, but in short time he did
come, and rs he neared the store he
heard screams of anguish, as II hall
smothered. as if coming from under
cover or close place. The colored
man said, "What is this referring
to these distressing, hslf-smothered
cries. The accused said: "My wife
is bad off go in and see what you
can do for her." The witness found
the Hftle room, eight or ten feet on this
summer day, shut up close, the window
shut, the blind closed, the outer door
fastened, and the partition door De-
tuccn the store and this ute room fast
botted, and upon going in there laid
the wife of the accused apparently IN
the agonies of death, writhing IN pain,
screaming as he had never heard NOR
tai scream before, biting her lips and
tongue until the blood flowed, and
bending her body back in spasms. The
spasm passing off q lucid interval
came. During all this the accused ap-
pears to have been an unmoved specta-
tor, passing in and out of the room.
SHE ACCUSES HIM OF HER MURDER.
But his wife, seeing him, charged
him with having killed her witha toddy
Just given her. This he did not deny.
Persons began TO assemble as the
tidines spread, and in the presence OF
several witnesses he is again and again
accused by his wife with her death. He
does not deny it, but puts both hands
on bis head and said, Lord Lord
Lord !" and went out of the room pre-
cipitately. He then set to work to feign
diving agonies himself, I'D fits very
like bis wife, jerking and rolling up his
eye. and throwing himself into at
titudes, and pretending to know no.
body, and, when reused up, drinking
an intoxicating drug Of some sort
marked "bitters." In the last mo-
ments of his wife, when relief was
coming on in death, two witnesses were
in the store with him, and he was IN
conscious. lying on the counter. One
witness went into the chamber OF the
diving woman and shut the door behind
him the other stayed in the store so
q. to watch the accused.
| CAUGHT PLAYING A FART.
| All became still in the chamber OF
death, and perfect stiffness reigned IN
the store. Thinking hjB3seT atone,
doUJttcss, the accused was no tonger
unconsciouS nor in aging Gg0nieS, 6Ut
raised his hcad cautiously, and, turn
ina his fucc tOudrds Nc door of the
now silent chamber, listened intcntly.
| There was evidence shat early IN the
morning he said he was mixing a toddy
for his wife, and that he had pat in the
glass white sugar and white substance
like soda, and n witness looking into
this glass, he stepped up and took it ont
of her reach and placed it where she
could not sec into it, and he said that
he was mixing toddy, also one for
himself. His wife, in her dying mo-
ments, charged him with bringing two
toddies in-one for her. which was
white, and one for himself, which was
red. Two glasses were found in the
cupboard, one with a white sediment,
Both were analyzed by the State
Chemist. The white sediment contained
strychnine, the red sediment. con.
tained none. The stomach of the dead
woman was taken out and analyzed
also, and strychnine found in it. The
doctors prove that the symptoms of the
diving woman were indicative of strych-
nInepoison.
| When the death OF his wife was al
last announced to him the accused be-
gan to make arrangements to bury hei
at once sent for persons, wrote an or
der for n coffin at once, and asked tC
have the body gotten ready for buriaI
by o'clock that day.